Associate Professor Jose A. Rodrigues Neto
Areas of expertise
- Economic Theory 1401
- Applied Economics 1402
Research interests
Economic Theory: Game Theory, Matching Theory, Microeconomics.
Applied Economics: Law & Economics, Education, Central Banking.
Available student projects
Important: I'm not interested in students for short term projects.
I supervise economic PhD and honours students, but have no funding.
Economic Theory: Game Theory (Games of Incomplete Information), Matching Theory (Stable Roommates Problem), Information Economics (Information Structures, Probability Ranges, and applications), Microeconomics, Decision Theory.
Applied Economic Theory: Law & Economics (Corruption, Crime and Punishment, Criminal Records), Education (New Technologies in Education and Strategic Incentives), Industrial Organization (Status Concerns, Oligopolies, Market for Protection), Public Economics (Private Provision of Public Goods, Voting).
Past student projects
"Social Choice", Sai Gedipudi, summer 2018.
"Altruism and Probability Distortion in Simple Games", Jiahao Huang, 2015.
"Housemates Problem", Michael J. Webb, 2014.
"Litigation as a Tournament", Ben Chen, 2013.
"Regret and Rejoice in Reference-Dependent Preferences", Hoang Nguyen, 2013.
"On the Necessity of Pairs and Triples for the Equivalence between Rationality Axioms", Junnan He (paper published in a refereed journal), paper for a course, 2011.
"A Conspicuous Consumption Model with Heterogeneous Status Concerns", Weichen Yan (winner of ANU academic medal), 2010.
"Knowledge, Information and the Possibility of Trade: A Review", Jakub Kielbasa, 2010.
"Information Structures", James Taylor, summer 2009.
"House M.D. or Patch Adams: A Model of Medical Student Selection", Duy Nguyen, 2007.
Publications
- Gomis-Porqueras, P & Rodrigues Neto, J 2018, 'Teaching technologies, attendance, learning and the optimal level of access to online materials', Economic Modelling, vol. 73, pp. 329-342.
- Fiorini, L. & Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2017, 'Self-consistency, consistency and cycles in non-partitional knowledge models', Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 87, pp. 11-21.
- Maldonado, W. & Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2016, 'Beliefs and Public Good Provision with Anonymous Contributors', Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2015, 'Monotonic Knowledge Models, Cycles, Linear Versions and Auctions with Differential, Finite Information', The Economic Record, vol. 91, no. S1, pp. 25-37.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2014, 'Monotonic Models and Cycles', International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 43, Issue 2, 403-413.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2014, 'On Corruption, Bribes and the Exchange of Favors', Economic Modelling, vol. 38, 152-162.
- Cornes, R. & Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2013, 'Is Policy Too Important to be Left to Empiricists? Lessons of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics', Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 61-76.
- Mazali, R. & Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2013, 'Dress to Impress: Brands as Status Symbols', Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 82, pp. 103-131.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2013, 'Acyclic Roommates', Economics Letters, vol. 118, Issue 2, 304-306.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2012, 'The Cycles Approach', Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 48, no. 4 (August 2012), pp. 207-211.
- Gomis Porqueras, P., Meinecke, J., Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2011, 'New Technologies in Higher Education: Lower Attendance and Worse Learning Outcomes?', Agenda: a journal of policy analysis and reform, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 69-83.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2011, 'Book Review: Viatcheslav V. Vinogradov, "Mathematics for Economists Made Simple," University of Chicago Press, distributed for Karolinum Press, Charles University, Prague, 2010.', The Economic Record, vol. 87, no. 277, pp. 349-350.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2009, 'From posteriors to priors via cycles', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 144, no. 2, pp. 876-883.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2007, 'Representing roommates' preferences with symmetric utilities', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 135, no. 1, pp. 545-550.
- Rodrigues-Neto, J.A. 2008, 'Climate Change Policy: A Theorist's Plea to Take Heed of Game Theory and Ambiguity Aversion', Agenda: a journal of policy analysis and reform, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 85-90.
